I'm not exactly sure what I've done other than deep cycle my DX a couple times but my battery life has improved dramatically over the past few days to the point that it seems better than my original Droid.

My was defaulted to auto-start the day I got it and I was quick to change that and turn off every other setting in there that I could. Even still, I find that if I use ATK I still see it load on reboot anyway so I still have to kill it. Not sure what's making it still load.

Where/how in the DroidX do you uncheck these app? Is there someway I could find out what should be running and what shouldn't? I know that's up to the user, I'm not sure what I'm using and what I'm not.

Advanced Task Killer (ATK). As for a list of what is needed versus not, it's somewhat personal preference but I've seen no actual list of what should be running for basic functionality. It's in safe mode by default and won't let you kill anything that's going to lock the phone up, and a simple reboot will restore all of the default running apps.

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